My first mallet (maul)

This is a practice piece getting ready to make some setting maul style gavels for my Masonic brothers. It is a soft maple head and a padauk handle friction set in place. I was very happy to get the mortise and tenon milled close enough to set in place without any glue

-- Don Riney, Arlington TX, --- Using a lathe involves breaking years and years of training and sticking a sharp piece of metal into rotating machinery.

You might want to think about putting a fox wedge in it. In case you haven’t done that before, saw a kerf in the tenon, size a wedge that will fill the kerf tighhtly and bottom out in the mortise, put ‘em together and drive it home. Nice piece.

Wow a difference a Day makes!. I had let this sit and hadn’t messed with it since posting. Today I picked it up and though it felt solid, The handle would turn in the mortise. I took Kenn’s advice and added a fox wedge. nice and tight now. Thanks!

-- Don Riney, Arlington TX, --- Using a lathe involves breaking years and years of training and sticking a sharp piece of metal into rotating machinery.